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If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.
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Knowledge and courage. These are the elements of greatness. Because they are immortal they bestow immortality. Each is as much as he knows, and the wise can do anything. A person without knowledge is in world without light. Wisdom and strength are the eyes and hands. Knowledge without courage is sterile.
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The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
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Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Born:
January 8, 1601
Died:
December 6, 1658
(aged 57)
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